Transactions of the American Ophthalmological Society
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Trans Am Ophthalmol Soc · Aug 2017
The Relationship Between Ocular Itch, Ocular Pain, and Dry Eye Symptoms (An American Ophthalmological Society Thesis).
To evaluate associations between sensations of ocular itch and dry eye (DE) symptoms, including ocular pain, and DE signs. ⋯ Subjects with moderate-severe ocular itch symptoms have more severe symptoms of DE, NOP, non-ocular pain and demonstrate abnormal somatosensory testing in the form of increased sensitivity to evoked pain at a site remote from the eye, consistent with generalized hypersensitivity.